grota
/ˈgɾɔ.tɐ/
The verdict
“grota” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,596 among 521 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,596
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 521
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - abertura feita pelas águas na ribanceira ou margem de um rio, e pela qual saem, alagando os campos marginais
Corpus desk
Index PT-grota · grota · Portuguese
grota · rank #55,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,596
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 521
- PHOTO-FINISH gongo
Nearest frequency peer: gongo (-4 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “grota”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ganda
ganda
44,425 corpus weight
- gongo
gongo
44,409 corpus weight
- grota
grota
44,405 corpus weight
- hastear
hastear
44,398 corpus weight
- hedonista
hedonista
44,395 corpus weight
- hom
hom
44,385 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “grota” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grota |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈgɾɔ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “grota” em português
Rare enough to double-check
grota is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,596 among 521 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈgɾɔ.tɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
grota has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is grota, spelled G-R-O-T-A.
Definition
- 1abertura feita pelas águas na ribanceira ou margem de um rio, e pela qual saem, alagando os campos marginais
- 2terreno em plano inclinado, na interseção de dois morros ou montanhas
- 3localidade ou comunidade rural isolada ou distante da sede do município
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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